Here’s what was different: During the time period in question, the company ran Facebook ad campaigns targeting higher-funnel audiences corresponding to people who have the same interests and demographics as their buyer persona. The audience size was approximately 20 million people.

The Facebook ads generated clicks and conversions as you would expect from any pay-per-click advertising campaign.

But I believe the campaigns had an additional halo effect of creating a strong brand bias among the people who clicked through to the site, which profoundly impacted the Remarketing lists for search ads campaigns, since they only target people who have previously visited your site.

Top-of-funnel content: Facebook, since it’s a very efficient way to build an audience.

Gated lead-gen and bottom-funnel content: LinkedIn. When the payoff is bigger, the targeting and context make up for the price tag.

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Facebook In Stream Video Ads: Advertisers now have access to In-Stream advertisements that serve ads within Live or previously live content (more information here). For publishers, this is an opportunity to monetize highly consumed video content. For Facebook, this increases the amount of ad inventory they have within newsfeed, a problem they addressed last year. For advertisers, this update will lay the foundation for stronger video performance on social due to the more traditional placement of the ads before or during content.

Instagram Story Ads: Ads are being introduced in this area of Instagram to take advantage of the 150 million users who consume Story content every day. These ads will look very similar to those on Snapchat, they will appear between user content and will be focused on generating reach. Compared to SnapAds though, these ads will benefit from Facebook’s targeting capabilities and troves of user data. Initial rollout will be limited to a handful of brands at launch, with a global rollout coming in the next few weeks.

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